Monday, June 05, 2006

Ceci n'est pas un jour férié

Cultural lesson for the week: Today is Pentecost, which means that it used to be a holiday, but the government turned it into a not-holiday in order to pay for social programs, after the heat wave a few years back when so many elderly people died for lack of such programs. The bbc explains further, in its frightfully British way.

Anyway, I did go in today, but it was very weird and empty everywhere.

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